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Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Legendary Viking town unearthed

Danish archaeologists believe they have found the remains of the
fabled Viking town Sliasthorp by the Schlei bay in northern Germany,
near the Danish border.
According to texts from the 8th century, the town served as the centre of power for the first Scandinavian kings.
But
historians have doubted whether Sliasthorp even existed. This doubt is
now starting to falter, as archaeologists from Aarhus University are
making one amazing discovery after the other in the German soil.
"This
is huge. Wherever we dig, we find houses – we reckon there are around
200 of them,” says Andres Dobat, a lecturer in prehistoric archaeology
at Aarhus University.
“And the houses we have dug up so far were
filled with finds: beads, jewellery, pieces of broken glass, axes, keys
and arrowheads.”